Thursday, 8 March 2018

Our glorious Charnley Cup run came to an end last night in the semi final against Stockport. Well Ok, we'd had 2 byes to get this far but they all count. Stockport are in good form - winning all 6 league games and dropping just 5 boards - so we were unlucky with the draw.. If only we'd had another bye we would have made in to the final.

Having said that, Stockport commented afterwards that it hadn't felt like a whitewash. Indeed every board was strongly contested. I'm sure that if I hadn't lost the toss it could all have been very different.....

John 0 - 1 Allan Beardsowrth (216)
John seemed to be doing OK till a pair of R's came off and then it was lost.

Steve Tr 0 - 1 Andy Reeve (198)
This looked fairly drawish and indeed Steve offered a draw but Andy fought on and got active late on to find the win.

Geoff B 0 - 1 Alan Smith (194)
Geoff put up a really good show in his usual calm manner and this went down to less than a minute each on the clock until his opponent's B pair finally saw some daylight and settled it

Paul 0 - 1 Phil Siddall (189)
I was doing OK in a Stonewall type position but I went astray when I tried to mix it up a bit.

Keven 0 - 1 Daniel Sheppard (170)
This game came to life after some exchanges but unfortunately not in Kev's favour.

Jim 0 - 1 Mike Taylor (166)
Jim was a pawn down in an endgame but had some hope with a runaway pawn which unfortunately eventually got rounded up.